Posted on 01/10/2006 4:34:06 PM PST by presidio9
HOT Oscar tip Heath Ledger yesterday compared US bans on his gay cowboy film to racism. Critics' Choice Awards Picture Gallery
Ledger said he was not surprised a Utah cinema had banned Brokeback Mountain, which depicts a lifelong love affair between two Montana cowboys. "I heard a while ago that West Virginia was going to ban it. But that's a state that was lynching people only 25 years ago, so that's to be expected," Ledger said.
"Personally, I don't think the movie is (controversial) but I think maybe the Mormons in Utah do. I think it's hilarious and very immature of a society.
"If two people are loving . . . I think we should be more concerned if two people express anger in love, than love."
Ledger was in Melbourne last night with his partner and Brokeback Mountain co-star Michelle Williams, and their daughter, Matilda, for the local premiere.
"She's (Matilda) been a big hit, had a big opening weekend and there'll probably be a sequel," Ledger said on the red carpet.
Ledger has been nominated for Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards for his performance and is tipped to be an Oscar nominee.
He earlier said he was "incredibly proud" of the film, but awards were the last thing on his mind when he was making the film.
"If you're thinking ahead and about people's opinions or how the film's going to be judged later it will affect the decisions you make on camera," he said earlier.
While filming the love story with co-star Jake Gyllenhaal, Ledger was falling for on-screen wife Michelle Williams.
"It was obviously a very personal, beautiful kind of evolving life and love that was occurring off-set, and then we'd go to work," he said.
Ledger arrived home in Sydney eight days ago but said its paparazzi would make it impossible to live there for good.
One photographer has alleged Ledger's uncle spat on him – a claim Ledger denies.
Of the paparazzi, he said: "It sucks, because it's only like it when I come back to Sydney. It's not like that here or in Brooklyn, where we live now." Brokeback Mountain, based on a short story by author Annie Proulx, opens on January 26.
You can really really like to hang out with guys, drink beer, watch sports, etc., but real men don't want to shtup each other, shtoopid!
Commentator Appalled but not Surprised compares queer flik star Heath Ledger to a mongoloid baboon, then apologizes to aforesaid baboons for the comparison.
LOL, I am now waiting for confirmation on any and all 1981 West Virgina lynchings. What did Senator Byrd know, and when did he know it?
Just because a movie is made, there is no inherant right to have it shown.
Only goes to show. Don't break down barriers unless you can see what's on the other side.
It was a really cute movie....a take-off of Taming the Shrew...
..Too bad.
He disgusts me now, and I have no intention of watching another movie with him in it.
ping
BTW - 5 weeks on screen and has made a whopping $22.4M...the movie cost $14M to make....and it has to triple that $14M to actually make the money back....so far....it's a monetary flop.....yet, somehow media etc keeps telling the public that it's a hit....hmmmm....
Oh yes. That Ronald Reagan was president in the 80's and he did the worst stuff. Did you know that in addition to facilitating lynchings in West Virginia, he invented homelessness and tried to destroy the world with nuclear weapons? Only the stiff opposition of Great Men like John Kerry and Ted Kennedy prevented it.
Well, this shows how much the "stars" know about the concepts of free enterprise, independent businesses and private property.......unless it's theirs.
Don't try to use logic with liberals.
It only makes their heads hurt.
That is a slander on West Virginia which has it's own mountains, but instead of two cowboys who want to ride each other, it's still the farmer and his sheep.
I knew I shouldn't do this, but here goes. I can't stop now.
Ledger is way out there in loony left land.
Society doesn't have to accept sodomy in order to be mature.
These Hollywood types are not just idiots. They are pure evil.
You can expect both of these moronic pinheads to jump into the Brokedick Mountain controvery up to their necks. This is how they guarantee themselves Oscars and other crappy awards given out by their artsy-fartsy Liberal pals.
What the....? It looks like I missed something really important during my formative years.
Hey Ledger..............f**k off.
The last lynching in the US was in 1964, 2 whites and 1 black.
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/lynchingyear.html
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